posted November 24, 2018 07:53 PM
Susie The Little Blue Coupe, a Walt Disney cartoon, The Man With The Golden Uke, a compilation of George Formbys'songs and a documentary (actually a promotional film for Mercedes) about the 1977 Rallye London to Sydney.

posted December 02, 2018 04:16 AM
I watched TARZAN AND THE SECRET TREASURE, a film I picked up at Blackpool. It was in plain boxes with a home-made label pasted on but I suspect it may have been sold by Perry's Movies originally... the labels on the spine look exactly like those on my other Perry's prints.

It was on 4 x 400ft spools which were full to the brim so I suspect it was the full feature. The print had German Titles and small Dutch (?) subs but English sound.

It was a real Saturday matinee film with a pretty good story and some thrilling moments. What a swimmer Johnny Weissmuller was! The print was quite good... a little contrasty but quite clear and good sound. It was on black and white stock. I don't think there's too much Weissmuller's Tarzan on Super 8 so I'm pretty pleased with it.

posted December 03, 2018 11:06 AM
That has to be quite the rare print there, as, expect for the odd digest, the only other one i know of is "Greystroke: The legend of Tarzan" which, thankfully, I own and also thankfully, still has vintage color.

--------------------"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "

posted December 03, 2018 01:25 PM
Top Film from Holland might have released this TARZAN AND THE SECRET TREASURE. They did quite a few over the years. Sadly by the time I had heard of them they had stopped trading.

posted December 03, 2018 03:14 PM
Thanks David, I wonder if Perry's imported them? I have an old edition of MOVIE COLLECTOR - that brilliant magazine from the 1990s - and it seems that Perry's had some of the later Tarzans. TARZAN AND THE SLAVE GIRL with Lex Barker in the Tarzan role was available from them in the 1990s.

posted December 10, 2018 05:30 PM
Great, Panayotis. You seem to have a good collection of silent films.Tonight : Reaching For The Moon, mounted on a 360mt/1200ft spool. Although it's an American film, there is a (very short) dialogue in French 😀

posted December 17, 2018 01:51 PM
Ran a full 1200ft reel of cartoons the other night.

1....Tweety Pie2..."Egg Cracker Suite" 1943...bought this castle film before it became Universal 8 new back in the 70s. It never had great color, but to this day its not bad, printed on polyester.3...Barber of Saville 1944...another castle film bought back in the 70s, once again on polyester stock.4...The Dwarfs Dilemma...5...I Wan'na Be Like You.....brilliant extract color still good.6...His Mouse Friday...Walton.7...Three For Breakfast..8...The Two Mouseketeers...Walton bought new in the 70s still has great color.9....Cat Napping...Walton....one of my favorite... good color.Egg Cracker Suite.....Barber of Saville....The Two Mouseketeers from 1952....

posted December 17, 2018 10:03 PM
by the way folks Both Walton T/J "The Two Mouseketeers" 1952 which incidentally won an academy award, and "His Mouse Friday" are on Fuji Film.

This particular print even after something like 40 years of owning it and regular use, shows no signs of fade, and I still regard it as one of the best color films Walton Films ever printed.Its unfortunate that "The Dwarfs Dilemma" has faded a little bit, as also that once had stunning color 40 years ago, however the film like its owner has faded a wee bit over those 40 years, "hardly surprising" but in saying that, its still pretty good...

Its been interesting to be able to get nine films onto one 1200ft reel. I think with Egg Cracker Suite and Barber of Saville being on polyester, its given me enough room to squeeze them all in Its great to be able to just sit back and watch one after another Nearly forgot the screen shot of Tweety Pie...

posted December 18, 2018 01:51 AM
Great fun Graham,I did the same recently by running 6 x 800ft reels of cartoons to check condition and colour,out of all of them I only removed 6 200 footers that had faded,enjoyed them all,Mark

posted December 18, 2018 12:10 PM
We've been doing Christmas shorts on film paired with features projected from DVD:

Saturday: The Small One with Mannheim Steamroller Christmas LiveSunday: A Disney Christmas with A Christmas StoryLast Night: Mister and Mistletoe (Popeye beats up Bluto for Christmas!) with The Polar Express

We'll do "Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper" tonight and probably skip the feature.

--------------------All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

Then it was time to adjust the masking etc for "Airplane" 3/400ft 1980. This is my spare copy that I bought on a Elmo 800ft reel a few years back. Its the first time I have screened this second copy and it looks and sounds just great...